Good Morning, Brooklyn: Friday, October 14, 2022 - Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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PROMINENT CHURCH MARKS DOUBLE ANNIVERSARY: St. Paul Community Baptist Church connected Hendrix Street successful East New York celebrates its 95th day this Sunday, arsenic its pastor, the Rev. David K. Brawley, marks his 13th day with the congregation. The Rev. Raymonda Speller, who successful 2013 was ordained astatine the church, is the impermanent preacher astatine the Sunday, October 16 work opening astatine 8 a.m.

Established successful 1927 successful Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood, St. Paul Community Baptist Church expanded from lone 84 members astatine 1 constituent to much than 3,000 members, and moved to East New York, nether the enactment of the prophetic Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, who served from 1974-2009; with Brawley arsenic Assistant Pastor until his installation arsenic Senior Pastor that year.

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PROPOSED RULES FOR ISSUING FIREARM LICENSES: The NYPD is releasing projected rules concerning the issuance of firearm licenses and which would amend weapon licensing standards successful airy of the Supreme Court determination earlier this twelvemonth successful N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, and caller statewide authorities governing weapon licensing. Specifically, the projected rules would amend the minimum property to get a rifle/shotgun licence from 18 to 21; codify proceeding procedures for licensees whose licenses person been suspended oregon revoked; update the rules to let for physics filing of applications and documents to get oregon renew a firearm license; adhd authorities instrumentality requirements to person a transportation license, necessitate applicants for a transportation licence to certify that they completed the grooming people and live-fire grooming people arsenic required pursuant to conception 400.00(19) of the Penal Law, among different requirements.

If adopted, the projected rules volition marque exigency rules issued successful August and September of 2022 permanent.

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THEFT AND CREDIT CARD FRAUD RING DISMANTLED: A luxury conveyance theft ringing and fraudulent recognition paper cognition successful New York has been taken down, State Attorney General Letitia James and New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced today. Four individuals are charged with 76 counts for their roles successful the auto-theft and export operation, pursuing a three-year associated probe that the Attorney General’s Organized Crime Task Force and the NYPD’s Grand Larceny Division conducted.

The individuals utilized stolen recognition paper accusation and stolen identifications to bargain high-end vehicles from residences and rental car tons successful New York and different states, and defrauded luxury hotels and covering stores successful New York City by purchasing thousands of dollars successful goods and services utilizing fake identifications.

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NYCHA OPENS PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON PRESERVATION TRUST OPTION: The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has released a draught of the voting procedures for the Public Housing Preservation Trust and opens nationalist remark period. The Public Housing Preservation Trust is simply a afloat nationalist entity that volition bring billions of dollars successful broad renovations to thousands of NYCHA apartments portion maintaining residents’ rights (including permanently affordable rent) and keeping NYCHA properties 100 percent public.

Ultimately, NYCHA residents volition ballot to determine whether oregon not they privation their improvement to beryllium included successful the Trust and its enactment to afloat renovate their development’s buildings and apartments.

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REPS. DEMAND CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON MTA’S USE OF $15 BILLION: A bipartisan duo serving New York and New Jersey unneurotic person formally called for a Congressional oversight proceeding and an probe into what they asseverate is New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) mismanagement of national dollars from some the House Committee connected Transportation and Infrastructure and the House Select Subcommittee connected the Coronavirus Crisis. Congressmembers Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican representing the 11^th District, and Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat successful New Jersey’s 5^th District, said they judge taxpayers merit answers, nether oath, from the MTA connected however $15 cardinal of COVID-19 alleviation payer dollars were spent and wherefore the MTA wants to enforce a caller Congestion Tax connected commuters.

The Congestion Tax would complaint drivers upwards of $23 per time to participate Manhattan southbound of 60th St. Moreover, commuters entering Manhattan from Staten Island and Brooklyn (within Malliotakis’ district) who already wage much than $10 to transverse the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge according to an EZ Pass invoice supplied to the Eagle, would beryllium deed with a treble toll.

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PINK RUNWAY SUPPORTS BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS: Maimonides Medical Center yesterday hosted its 9th yearly Pink Runway fashion amusement astatine The Dyker Beach Club. Held each twelvemonth successful October during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the fundraiser lawsuit honors bosom crab patients and survivors successful enactment of Maimonides’ world-class Breast Center and pays tribute to those who enactment the center’s life-saving enactment successful Brooklyn and beyond, with this year’s honorees being Dr. Kevin Becker, Cancer Center Medical Director & Chief, Division of Hematology Medical Oncology; Dr. Adriana Corben, Vice Chair, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; and Dr. Fleure A. Gallant, Radiation Oncology.

Pink Runway promotes the value of preventative attraction measures specified arsenic regular mammograms and different aboriginal detection procedures, which are important successful the combat against bosom cancer.

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RECKLESS DRIVING GETS HIM 35-COUNT INDICTMENT: A Bedford-Stuyvesant antheral has been indicted for depraved indifference murder, assault, and related charges successful transportation with a reckless driving spree connected June 25, which was chronicled connected surveillance video. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez identified the suspect arsenic Tyler Green, 20, who was arraigned Thursday earlier Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Dena Douglas connected a 35-count indictment. Green is charged with second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, second-degree manslaughter and different related counts, for ignoring reddish lights and halt signs, fatally striking a 68-year-old woman, earnestly injuring her grandson, t-boning different vehicle, crashing into a bodega and past fleeing.

The suspect was ordered held without bail, with a November 2 tribunal date, and faces a maximum condemnation of 25 years to beingness successful situation if convicted of the apical count.

GROUP ARRAIGNED ON SEVERAL COUNTS OF FRAUD, CONSPIRACY: Four Brooklynites were among a radical arrested and arraigned Thursday earlier United States Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo in Brooklyn national tribunal connected respective fraud charges including a scam called “pig butchering.” They are charged with wealth laundering conspiracy, ligament fraud conspiracy, slope fraud conspiracy, passport fraud conspiracy, aggravated individuality theft and conspiring to run an unlicensed wealth transmitting business.

The Brooklyn defendants are Yanbing Chen (age 28), Changgui Huang (age 30), Xin Jin (age 33) and Lingming Zeng (age 37).

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URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM RETURNS FROM HURRICANE IAN-STRICKEN FLORIDA: The New York City Emergency Management Department, New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department contiguous welcomed backmost 48 members of the Urban Search and Rescue squad — New York Task Force from their deployment to Florida responding to Hurricane Ian betterment work. New York Task Force 1 specializes successful municipality hunt and rescue, catastrophe recovery, and exigency triage and medicine.

The 48-member team, on with 4 canines, deployed with a fig of capabilities including in-water rescue, method search, canine search, a aesculapian squad and logistics/base of operations.

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HIGHER MININUM RAISE FOR HOME CARE AIDES: Home attraction aides volition beryllium receiving a higher minimum wage, effectual this month, the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL) announced yesterday. Through Public Health Law § 3614-f, the minimum wage for location attraction aides has been accrued to $17.00 per hr successful New York City, Long Island, and Westchester, and $15.20 per hr for the remainder of New York State. Home attraction aides whitethorn besides beryllium owed other wage successful summation to minimum wage rates for overtime, call-in wage if they are sent location earlier than their scheduled adjacent of day, workdays longer than 10 hours and azygous attraction if they cleanable their ain uniforms.

Interestingly, the wage rise was announced during the aforesaid week arsenic an 8.7 percent summation successful Social Security benefits.

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LATEST AGREEMENT ON HALTING GHOST GUN SALES: An statement betwixt the metropolis and online shade weapon retailer Arm oregon Ally volition halt the company’s amerciable selling and delivering of weapon components to New York City residents, Mayor Eric Adams announced connected Thursday. These shade weapon components are utilized to assemble amerciable and untraceable firearms and airs a sedate hazard to New Yorkers. As portion of the agreement, Arm oregon Ally indispensable besides instrumentality a technological barroom to immoderate specified aboriginal sales, and supply the metropolis with its income information for each specified income since 2020.

The statement with Arm oregon Ally — based successful Kansas City, Missouri — is the 4th of its benignant that the metropolis has reached with online shade weapon retailers pursuing a suit filed against 5 companies successful June 2022.

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THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY PARTICIPATES IN STORMWATER RESILIENCY INITIATIVE: The Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, is receiving a $600,000 assistance to enactment successful a large stormwater resiliency initiative—one of the largest successful standard to beryllium undertaken astatine a backstage spot successful New York City. Made imaginable done the Department of Environmental Protection’s Resilient NYC Partner’s Program and EFC’s Green Innovation Grant Program, this task is an inventive illustration of however nationalist and backstage entities tin enactment successful concern to summation New York City’s stormwater resilience in a changing climate.

The task is the archetypal to payment from DEP’s $53 cardinal Resilient NYC Partners programme that engages backstage spot owners crossed the 5 boroughs to greenish their properties and negociate stormwater onsite.

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NY STATE DOUBLING INVESTMENT IN MED SCHOOL PIPELINE FOR UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS: State Department of Health Commissioner Mary Bassett was acceptable wrong the hr to denote the state’s accrued committedness to diversifying the doc workforce by doubling its concern successful diverseness successful medicine pipeline programs that the Associated Medical Schools of New York manages. The programs are designed to assistance students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented successful medicine participate and postgraduate from aesculapian schoolhouse successful New York, including the Bridges to Medicine Master successful Physiology Program, AMSNY’s newest funded post-baccalaureate programme astatine Brooklyn’s SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.

While much than 30 percent of the state’s colonisation is Black oregon Hispanic, lone astir 12 percent of physicians correspond those demographics.

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NEW INJUNCTIONS FILED AGAINST TRUMP ORGANIZATION: New York Attorney General Letitia James is taking caller measures to halt Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from continuing to prosecute successful the important fraudulent and amerciable concern enactment outlined successful her September 2022 suit pending trial. A question for a preliminary injunction filed today, October 13, would prohibit the Trump Organization from transferring immoderate worldly assets to different entity without tribunal approval, requiring that immoderate caller fiscal disclosures to banks and insurers incorporate each supporting and applicable material, and asking for the assignment of an autarkic show to oversee compliance with these measures.

The Attorney General’s bureau reported that the Trump Organization appears to beryllium taking steps to restructure its business. On September 21, 2022, the aforesaid time OAG filed its lawsuit, the Trump Organization registered a caller entity with the New York Secretary of State: “Trump Organization II LLC,” which has been recovered to beryllium a overseas corporation, but was incorporated successful Delaware, existent U.S. President Joe Biden’s location state.

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NEW LAW ENDS EXCESS STUDENT DEBT FEES: State agencies are present prohibited from charging an further interest for outstanding pupil debt, according to a caller instrumentality that Governor Kathy Hochul has signed. Legislation (S.7862B/A.10261) adds a proviso to the authorities concern instrumentality prohibiting assorted authorities agencies from collecting a 22 percent interest erstwhile enforcing indebtedness postulation connected acquisition indebtedness erstwhile accepted means person been exhausted.

While specified debts whitethorn beryllium referred to the Office of the Attorney General’s Civil Recoveries Bureau, Attorney General Letitia James said that she pushed for the legislation: “Charging fees to students already struggling with indebtedness lone compounds the problem. This instrumentality addresses that inequity and is an important measurement successful helping these New Yorkers go financially stable.”

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STUDENTS STILL FIGHT FOR DIWALI HOLIDAY: Families of students who observe the Hindu festival of Diwali (starting connected October 21) will again person to marque a pugnacious prime betwixt their schooling and keeping their children location for this spiritual holiday, reports Chalkbeat, a non-profit quality enactment covering education. The contented centers astir a run committedness that then-Mayoral-candidate Eric Adams made to respective communities successful the metropolis —including Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains — to marque Diwali an authoritative schoolhouse holiday; but the process has been hindered due to the fact that of a authorities request that schools beryllium successful league astatine slightest 180 days a year.

Chalkbeat reports that Stuyvesant High School students person obtained much than 1,500 signatures connected a petition urging Adams to marque authoritative a schoolhouse vacation for Diwali, which celebrates the triumph of airy implicit acheronian and cognition implicit ignorance.

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BILLION OYSTER PROJECT GETS $75K FOR NEW CENTER: The Billion Oyster Project Harbor Education Center is 1 of 23 projects awarded a assistance to assistance communities on the Hudson River Estuary amended h2o prime and heighten biology acquisition and stewardship, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has announced. Billion Oyster Project, which has been featured extensively successful the Eagle and which is receiving $75,000, volition plan and equip a recently renovated gathering connected Governors Island to location the Billion Oyster Project Harbor Education Center, which volition see a nationalist acquisition exhibit, a classroom, and a grooming halfway for metropolis nationalist schoolhouse teachers and assemblage scientists.

The announcement coincides with the 20th Annual ‘Day successful the Life of the Hudson and Harbor,’ wherever 5,000 student-scientists are gathering on the Hudson River and New York Harbor to cod information connected the Hudson’s food and invertebrates, way the river’s tides and currents, and analyse h2o chemistry and quality.

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NEW PRINCIPAL AT HKS PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING CENTER: Helen Keller Services (HKS) Children’s Learning Center precocious welcomed its caller principal, Avien Henry to pb this schoolhouse that serves kids who are blind, person debased vision, DeafBlind, person combined hearing-vision nonaccomplishment oregon are connected the Autism Spectrum. An ABA and peculiar acquisition aboriginal Intervention supplier who has taught successful a assortment of nationalist and backstage schools passim New York City, Ms. Henry was astir precocious Assistant Principal successful a K-8th people District 75 schoolhouse present successful Brooklyn, wherever she supervised teachers and planned the maestro schedules for the school’s 5 locations.

Ms. Henry holds master’s degrees, including successful Early Childhood Education for Students with Disabilities from CUNY Brooklyn College, wherever she is an adjunct instructor, teaching pre-service peculiar educators and professionals who purpose to specialize successful moving with individuals with Autism.